There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end.

Besides, my drinking blood's not nearly as weird as that time I caught you shaving your legs.""I was curious!

Mentally I can die, Emotionally I can cry, Physically I can sigh, Spirituality I can fly. If I just try.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.